"This book is breath-taking!"

I'm just fascinated by the futuristics that I've been reading lately. They are all just so intriguing in that the author creates this world that while it's a fantasy world it just seems so real. Linda Kilgren has done just that with this book.

Cwen has lived on Earth in the year 2000 with her Aunt Amma, her teacher, Professor Pimbleton and her trainer, Vlad. Her teacher has made sure she knows about everything from romance to time travel and her trainer has taught her all different types of battle from weapons to the ancient arts. Cwen lives in almost total isolation and doesn't understand why. Her aunt just tells her that one day she will have to undertake a great journey and all will be explained to her at the correct time.

When Cwen turns 19 years old she gets fed up and runs out of the house. Three beings catch her in an alley and before Vlad can get to her, she kills one of the men. Amma knows it's time for Cwen to complete her journey. What Cwen doesn't know is she's going to 4010 Earth future to her mother and there she will meet with her husband, Otas, the Overlord to all the Liambrians. Cwen is Queen and she has much to learn before she's ready to take over her duties. Will she accept her husband and her duties? The future of all Liambrians rests in her hands.

This book held me enthralled from the very first paragraph until I finally turned the last page. The world that Linda Kilgren built with her words was truly spectacular. Scenes from this book flashed through my mind as if I were watching a video. It is my sincere hope that Linda Kilgren will give us more stories from this fascinating world of Cwen, Otas and the Liambrians. I feel as if I'm not finished with them yet!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted December 26, 2002

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Summary

Cwen has the Gift, a host of extrasensory capabilities, but she doesn't know how to control them. One night she becomes angry with her aunt for not giving her revelations about who she really is. Cwen runs away, carrying a Ka- bar, because Vlad had taught her never to go out unarmed.

Fascinated by the sights and sounds of being outside the stuffy mansion, Cwen is careless. She is attacked by three beings that look like earthlings, but are in fact beings from another galaxy. Their purpose is to kidnap Cwen for their evil leader, Maccus. She becomes aware of her doom if she doesn't escape. Before the Trexrans can take her away, Vlad teleports to the alley where Cwen is being held and rescues her.

Back at the mansion, her Aunt Amma tells her that she is being hunted by a beast from another galaxy. Meaning Maccus, who is powerful with the Gift and wants Cwen as his Queen to create a master race of super beings with extrasensory capabilities. The only choice is to send Cwen far away from this threat. Aunt Amma and Vlad send Cwen far into the future, to the year 4010, where the inhabitants live like the folks of the middle ages following an upheaval of the Earth in the year 2010.

Fatigue from time travel prevents Cwen from asking her mother all of the questions raging in her head. She goes to sleep for the night. But that night is not without surprises. Cwen looses her virginity to a huge male, called Otas, who is powerful with Gift and the Overlord of a race a beings called Liambrians. Afterwards, Otas informs Cwen he is her husband. Before this new knowledge can sink in, Otas uses the Gift to put Cwen to sleep.

The next morning, rage rushes through Cwen. Sevea tries to quell that anger by telling Cwen she isn't an Earthling. She is Liambrian as well. The Liambrians are in exile on Earth, trying to hide from the Trexrans and Maccus. His plan to use the Liambrians to create a master race must be avoided at all cost...